Derangements and Genocchi numbers (Q1336648)

The authors give a new combinatorial interpretation for the derangement numbers and Genocchi numbers (arising from the expansion of \(2t/(e^ t+ 1))\), connecting them with the Euler finite-difference tableau and the Seidel tableau, respectively. In this correspondence the notion of doubled fixed point in the graph of an exceeding mapping is used, see also the first author and \textit{G. Viennot} [Ann. Discrete Math. 6, 77-87 (1980; Zbl 0449.10011)]. In addition, Gandhi polynomials [\textit{J. M. Gandhi}, Am. Math. Mon. 77, 505-506 (1970; Zbl 0198.370)] are used to obtain functional equations, generating functions and continued fraction expansions for the Genocchi numbers.